Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no reason why confidence should again be deposited in a man so grotesquely visionary that he takes no account of his decisive defeats and asks for permission to butt his head against the wall that raised such a welt on it last time. Henry P. Fletcher may sound a little too panicky and self-righteous in his protests over the use of soldier boys in the torchlight rally preceding the President's speech. But his objections to the warmed-over panacea are sound. Liberty Leaguer Shouse wins the same commendation by essentially the same stand. And Herbert Hoover...
...solutions, the name Svedberg is as familiar as the name De Laval is to dairymen. Lately at Sweden's University of Upsala, shy, black-eyed, Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Theodor Svedberg, 50, perfected two new rotors in which at normal operating speed a dime would press against the wall with a force of half a ton. One rotor he kept. The other he sent to the du Pont research laboratories at Wilmington, Del. There last week Dr. Elmer Otto Kraemer put the machine through its paces for a group of scientists and newshawks...
Thrice in the past year has President Charles Richard Gay of the New York Stock Exchange gathered about him a well-groomed, able staff and set forth upon goodwill missions through those large sections of the U. S. where Wall Street is seriously regarded as a prime filling station on the wide road to Hell. Implicit in most of his many speeches was the message that the New York Stock Exchange had received a new revelation of its public duty...
Partner Meighan had to take the rap because he was the only partner who was an Exchange member. Summing up the case, the New York Times declared: "Wall Street observers felt . . . that neither the New York Stock Exchange nor the Curb Exchange had added to their prestige by their handling of the case of Walter P. McCaffray...
...circles round a cistern's wall...